WordPress.com Hiccup with Themes

Another Update – Everything has been fixed. If you are still having trouble, contact WordPress.com support through the FEEDBACK button. Thanks, WordPress.com crew!

So if your custom CSS WordPress Theme has reverted back to the Default, be patient. Hopefully it will be back up to what it was soon. Update: Themes appear to be working now.

You will also notice that instead of your blog’s name in the title of your WordPress Administration Panels, you will see “My Weblog”. This is just a glitch in the system, too.

Remember, WordPress.com is cutting edge blogging technology. We WordPress.com bloggers are working with the very latest version of WordPress, testing it and putting it through its paces. Our feedback to the developers makes WordPress even better for everyone. But it does mean we have to put up with a few glitches once in a while.

UPDATE: If you are getting email from your WordPress.com blog, it is because all the settings have been reset. Go into your Options and reset the Discussion > Email sections to email you or not when someone leaves a comment on your blog.

I’m sure there will be a few more glitches while this is being worked on. Be patient. They are working on it.

10 Comments

It took a minute to figure out. I couldn’t remember to subscribing to anything called “My Weblog” recently. :) When I came here, I was actually wondering if you had been sick or something for the blog to look like that.
I’m glad to see everything back to normal.

I don’t have a problem with the hiccups but with the “improvements”. The preview has been moved to open in a new window or tab (five lines down!!!). This was done without warning and no indication it is even happening except my preview post wasn’t there. Clicking on the new preview button did nothing, until I finally looked at the bottom-most Firefox bar and discovered several of the new tabs there. Evidently, it is a permanent “improvement”, but unlike Snapview, we aren’t allowed to undo the thing. I need multiple tabs for the same reasons you do and now to look all over the place to check on my posting coding, etc.

Horrible, horrible. Why can’t users interested in readability and efficiency get asked first about enforced improvements?

You know what’s really weird? I had/have a similar problem with my own installed WordPress blog. 3 days ago it reverted back to the default settings of my chosen theme. I still haven’t figured out why.

I thought upgrading might help, so I moved to 2.1.3 a few minutes ago. It didn’t help. In fact, it broke my blogroll. I’m too tired to keep trying to figure it out tonight. If anybody can point me to a good place to start to fix this, please let me know.

If you are having this problem on a stand-alone version of WordPress, you may have bigger problems. The 2.1.3 release was a security patch which fixed vulnerabilities which allowed nasty people to do nasty things to your blog. It’s a good thing you upgraded, but make sure nothing else happened when you weren’t looking. There have been reports of evil doers exploiting those who haven’t upgraded.

Pam, I’m with you totally. Hit that Feedback button and tell them how you feel. I’m throughly disgusted, and let them know that, by this new preview change. It sucks and puts WordPress back into the dark ages of pre-preview days, one I’m not eager to return to. If this stays, I’ll be ranting about it publicly in a day or two. It might just be temporary. Let’s hope, but let them know how you feel about it.

This has nothing to do with full version WordPress. It was only for WordPress.com blogs, which are run with WordPressMU.

As for your problem, if WordPress can’t find your Theme for any reason, it will revert to the Default Theme. That is why it may revert after you upload a new version of your stylesheet. During the process, someone may have visited or you may have triggered your blog in a way that it went hunting for the stylesheet, didn’t find it, and reverted. Just change it back. Pretty simple.

They put this “protection” in the recent versions of WordPress and it makes sense but it doesn’t always work in the real world.